Veneer box



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PatentedMay 8, 1887.

' @Zelf/fw UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SILAS F. VOODVORTH, OF CLIPPER GAP, CALIFORNIA.

VENEER BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 362,136l dated May 3, 1887.

Application filed May 5, 188B.

To @ZZ whom, it may concern.- Y

Be it known that I, SILAs F. WooDwoRTH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Clipper Gap, in the county of Placer and State of California, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Veneer FruitBoXeS, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in that class of fruit-boxes made from eut veneer and used for berries, grapes, &c.; and the objects of my improvement are, first, to prevent the boxes fromsplitting and falling topieces, as

they are disposed to do when secured by sewing, the numerous punctures of theneedle creating a rift in the grain of the wood; second, to prevent the boxes falling to pieces by reason of the imperfect clinching ofthe tacks, when tacking only is relied upon to hold them together; third, to strengthen and stiffen the rim of the box. I attain these objects by the construction shownin the accompanying drawing, which shows in perspective a complete box.

rlhe upper corners of the boards A A, forming the sides of the box, are folded over and upon the board b, forming the bottom and continuing up the sides, as shown at c d, thus increasing the thickness from three-ply to fourply, if one corner be folded, or to ve-ply, if

Serial NoA 201.234. (Model.)

both corners be folded, and giving a better hold for the clinch of a tack and strengthening and stiffening the rim by the bend and set of the wood, which, being folded while soft from steaming, becomes set and rigid in this fold, and would hold the parts togetherif the tacks were imperfectly driven and clinched, or even if they were withdrawn.

I am aware that prior to-my invention veneer fruitboxes have been made by tacking the parts together, and by tacking and sewing the parts together, and by clamping the parts together by a piece or pieces of sheet metal folded tightly upon them. I therefore do not claim a veneer box or basket, broadly; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A veneer fruit-box consisting of three pieces, a piece, Z), forming,the bottom and portions of two opposite sides, and two pieces, A, forming the body of the box, their end portions being arranged on the upwardly-projecting portions of the piece b, and having their upper corners lapped over and secured upon the piece b, as and for the purpose set forth.

SILAS F. VOODWORTH.

Vitnesses:

E. O. SMITH, A. F. Woon, 

